August 28th, 1734

Born on August 28th, 1734

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What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 1413

The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy.

August 28th, 1916

A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.

August 28th, 2003

A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.

August 28th, 1993

The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).

August 28th, 1987

Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

August 28th, 1973

Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

August 28th, 1963

American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

August 28th, 1955

African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

August 28th, 1950

American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.

August 28th, 1914

In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight (pictured).

August 28th, 1909

The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.

August 28th, 1833

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.

August 28th, 1830

Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.

August 28th, 1789

William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

Same year
Born in 1734

47

Taksin

King of Siam

*April 17th, 1734, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya †April 7th, 1782, Thon Buri

80

Franz Anton Mesmer

German physician

*May 23rd, 1734, Iznang †March 5th, 1815, Meersburg

62

Joseph Wright of Derby

18th-century British painter (1734-1797)

*September 3rd, 1734, Derby †August 29th, 1797, Derby

68

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

French statesman and art collector (1734-1802)

*January 20th, 1734, Douai †October 29th, 1802, Paris

67

George Romney

English painter (1734-1802)

*December 26th, 1734, Dalton-in-Furness †November 15th, 1802, Kendal

52

Christoph Sonnleithner

Solicitor and composer

*May 28th, 1734, Szeged †December 25th, 1786, Vienna

57

Pedro López de Lerena

Spanish politician (1734-1792)

*May 5th, 1734, Valdemoro †January 2nd, 1792, Madrid

61

Allard Hulshoff

Dutch theologian and author

*February 20th, 1734, Groningen †July 30th, 1795, Amsterdam

78

Carlo Luca Pozzi

Swiss sculptor (1734-1812)

*October 19th, 1734, Bruzella †December 12th, 1812, Castel San Pietro

58

Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

German prince

*August 8th, 1734, Szczecin †March 3rd, 1793, Luxembourg

59

Ramón Pignatelli

Spanish 18th century politician

*April 18th, 1734, Zaragoza †June 30th, 1793, Zaragoza

72

Robert Morris

American financier and Founding Father of the United States (1734-1806)

*January 20th, 1734, Liverpool †May 9th, 1806, Philadelphia

82

Adrian Zingg

Swiss painter (1734-1816)

*April 15th, 1734, St. Gallen †May 26th, 1816, Leipzig

59

Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier

French organist and composer

*June 28th, 1734, Abbeville †May 6th, 1794, Paris

77

Franz Anton von Weber

German musician, bandmaster and theater director

*September 26th, 1734, Zell im Wiesental †April 16th, 1812, Mannheim

79

Louis François II de Bourbon

Prince of Conti

*September 1st, 1734, Paris †March 13th, 1814, Barcelona

40

William Small

Scottish physician and professor of natural philosophy

*October 13th, 1734, Angus †February 25th, 1775, Birmingham

86

Maciej Kamieński

Polish composer (1734-1821)

*October 13th, 1734, Sopron †January 25th, 1821, Warsaw

62

Francis Lightfoot Lee

American politician (1734-1797)

*October 14th, 1734, Stratford Hall †January 11th, 1797, Richmond County

68

José Cornide

Spanish writer (1734-1803)

*April 25th, 1734, A Coruña †February 22nd, 1803, Madrid

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1734 is a normal year and no leap year.

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